SPECIAL NOTICE
R -- Focus Group for Continuing Education - J&A
- Notice Date
- 6/26/2018
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541690
— Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Acquisition and Assistance Field Branch (Cincinnati), 4676 Columbia Parkway, M/S C-4, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45226
- ZIP Code
- 45226
- Solicitation Number
- 2018-24602
- Archive Date
- 7/25/2018
- Point of Contact
- Dwight D Favors, Phone: (513)533-8137
- E-Mail Address
-
dyf3@cdc.gov
(dyf3@cdc.gov)
- Small Business Set-Aside
- N/A
- Description
- Justification other than full and open competition NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE A CONTRACT. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award a sole source firm fixed price contract to Preethi Lakshmi Pratap, PhD., Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health University of Illinois, Room 441, MC 922, Chicago, Illinois, 60607 for services to provide expertise and technical capabilities in developing CE activities for primary care clinicians and practitioners to communicate occupational safety and health information relevant to PD prescribing practices. The Preethi Lakshmi Pratap, PhD., Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health University of Illinois is only source because of the following: 1. Dr. Pratap holds a PhD in Environmental Health and Industrial Hygiene, and she trained in the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service. Dr. Pratap is a Research Assistant Professor, in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As a main part of her work, Dr. Pratap has developed OSH curricula for several primary care residency programs to address occupational health training gaps. She is a Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Center (WHO-CC) in Occupational and Environmental Health, Great Lakes Centers for Occupational and Environmental Safety and Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health. In this capacity, she has designed, evaluated, and piloted occupational and environmental safety and health training programs for global clinical audiences. Dr. Pratap has served on an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) with NIOSH to develop OSH based CE for primary care clinicians, which included navigating NIOSH technical review processes and facilitating the process to accredit this training as a CDC CE activity (#15IPA1518081). 2. A Guide and Training Course". The service in this contract requires a specialized combination of multiple technical areas. The contractor must understand advanced occupational safety and health (OSH) issues. The contractor must understand issues related to communicating OSH content to non-occupational safety and health clinicians. The contractor requires experience in developing OSH CE. The contractor must have experience in developing, organizing, conducting and moderating focus group activities to communicate OSH information to practicing clinicians. The contractor must have experience with CDC CE accreditation processes and NIOSH needs and concerns regarding such CE activities. Dr. Preethi Pratap possesses the required combination of experience and skills in all of these areas. This contract action is for 22 month period the government intends to solicit and negotiate with only one source under the authority of FAR 6.302-1(a)(2) and 10 U.S.C. 2304(c)(1) or 41 U.S.C. 3304(a)(1). Interested persons may identify their interest and capability to respond to the requirement or submit proposals. This notice of intent is not a request for competitive proposals; however, all proposals/responses received from the issuance of this notice will be considered by the government. A determination by the government not to compete this proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the government. Information received will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a competitive procurement. Any proposal/response should be emailed to Dwight Favors, Contract Specialist at dyf3@cdc.gov by July 10, 2018. If no affirmative responses are received on or before the date stated, in accordance with FAR 6.302-1(a)(2), negotiations will be conducted with Preethi Lakshmi Pratap, PhD., Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health University of Illinois, Room 441, MC 922, Chicago, Illinois, 60607, as the only source and a contract will be issued without any additional notices being posted.
- Web Link
-
FBO.gov Permalink
(https://www.fbo.gov/spg/HHS/CDCP/CP/2018-24602/listing.html)
- Place of Performance
- Address: Cincinnati, Ohio, 45226, United States
- Zip Code: 45226
- Zip Code: 45226
- Record
- SN04969369-W 20180628/180626231150-00433744df1a0753cac459cb3dc15dcb (fbodaily.com)
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